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RE: Day 5 - Team Beck moves from Paris to Pas-de-Calais in the north of France and nobody dies
HI @pjcswart (another Steemian I've now had the pleasure of meeting in real life), I love that we can make up words like this in English and somehow it works. If I tried that in French I would just get weird looks - "that's not a word".
And oooooh, those little pains au chocolat...yum yum yum....😊😊
The reason why it worked was because it is not really an official word so it was kind of a mistake, but it was written in the context of a real mistake.
Well, it also works because there's a current trend of verbing in the English language - although I'm not sure the venerable roundabout has to date had the privilege of being transformed this way.
O yeah like googling, just google it. My view is that a lot of that verbing is an indirect result of the IYI idea that is phenomenoning the world.
SoI googled IYI (no irony there), and this prickly piece was my find du jour: https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e2d0577. Youch.
Yeah thats the one. There's another one on how to beat an IYI its so funny. https://www.mergersandinquisitions.com/how-to-beat-the-intellectual-yet-idiot/
I saw that link too but after the first one wasn't sure if I had the courage to read another in the same sitting! Waiting for my SAM (Sarcasm Appreciation Mechanism) to build up again after the loss of my draft 😜😜
Thanks for reading the first one. Have you found some good ways of SAMMING?
Not consistently reliable ones, no...otherwise as a fan of satire I look for the telltale signs of the sarcasmer looking for credit for wit. Then as a sarcasmee I can be (more) ready for the slash. I never intend to grow a thick skin. That gets in the way of empathy, so a certain number of ouches per week go with the territory.